Giving Trees set up across Fremont County

With the holidays on the horizon, Loaves & Fishes continue to help struggling families in the community.

This year, many banks, organizations and churches have stepped up to the plate to help in various ways.

For instance, Giving Trees are set up in the following locations: St. Michael's Church, Christian Family Fellowship, Seventh-day Adventist Church;

Wells Fargo (three locations), Cañon National Bank, two locations in Cañon City and one in Florence, Power Credit Union, Sunwest Credit Union, US Bank, High Country Bank, Sunflower Bank on Ninth and Royal Gorge Boulevard, Pueblo Bank and Trust, Colorado Credit Union and Rocky Mountain Bank and Trust.

Also, a box to collect toys has been set up in the Cañon City Daily Record, 701 S. Ninth St., while the Marines are collecting toys at Walmart at various times throughout the week.

Those who would like to help are encouraged to pick up one or more ornaments off the Giving Trees at the above locations. The ornaments will feature a boy or girl and different age groups. Then participants may bring the unwrapped toys back to the original location where they picked up ornaments or to Loaves & Fishes at 241 Justice Center Road.

Warehouse manager Traci Edens suggested what to buy for older boys and girls.

"Good things for them would be gift cards, perfume or nail polish for the older girls or cologne for the older boys," said. "The little kids are so easy to buy for."

The deadline to bring the toys back is Dec.

Advertisement

14. The Children's Toy House will take place from 1-6 p.m. Dec. 17 in the Evangelical Free Church at 3000 E. Main St.

The organization also needs food to fill the Christmas food boxes.

"We need turkeys, hams or anything to help with the holiday meal," Edens said. "We have around 1,200 families (registered)."She also said volunteers are needed at 11 a.m. Dec. 13 to assemble the Christmas food boxes then drivers to deliver them at 8 a.m. Dec. 15 at 241 Justice Center Road. For more information, call 275-0593.

Article Comments

We reserve the right to remove any comment that violates our ground rules, is spammy, NSFW, defamatory, rude, reckless to the community, etc.

We expect everyone to be respectful of other commenters. It's fine to have differences of opinion, but there's no need to act like a jerk.

Use your own words (don't copy and paste from elsewhere), be honest and don't pretend to be someone (or something) you're not.

Our commenting section is self-policing, so if you see a comment that violates our ground rules, flag it (mouse over to the far right of the commenter's name until you see the flag symbol and click that), then we'll review it.